Posts Categorized: Proactive Parenting

This article is the second in a 3-week series about parenting ideas. Last weeks article was, “The Key To Becoming a Better Mom.” Last week I wrote about the difference between reacting and responding, and reading about a parenting technique versus applying one. Children can ignore, laugh, scream, or argue in the middle of being… Read more »

This article is the first in a 3-week series about parenting ideas. This week I’m discussing the differences between reacting and responding, and the importance of putting a new parenting idea to the test. I did a TV interview last week where the first question asked was, What’s the difference between reacting and responding? (My… Read more »

Who Has Time to Relax? I think parents are just plain worn out! Many, especially in this economy, are working hard, feeling stressed, and can’t make adjustments to how many hours a week they work. They arrive home frustrated, angry, sad and tired. They wonder, “What happened to the life I planned to live? Parents… Read more »

Have you read Notes From a Dragon Mom in the NY Times yet? It’s a truly inspiring story about a mom who is loosing her child to Tay-Sachs disease. This heartbreaking story shares a tremendous, and truthful gift about life with all who read it. How does one, whose heart is breaking and bleeding on… Read more »

A lot of parents express that they’re at their wits’ end with potty training. They say they have tried everything from rewards and charts, to stickers, bribes and positive reinforcement, and NOTHING has worked! This is a difficult situation, and not unusual, especially for boys. A child can be well into the potty training process,… Read more »

Going to the hospital for any reason — or even just going to the doctor for routine vaccinations — isn’t fun for a child. The experience is filled with many things — lack of power, a shortage of choices, pain, fear, strange people and strange experiences. Your child will be looking at how you react… Read more »

For me, this summer was all about traveling and moving. Everywhere I went I saw children playing, misbehaving and being corrected by their parents. It didn’t matter if I was in an airport or a rest stop, by the ocean or a river; parents were correcting their children. Normal, right? Some parents were loud and… Read more »

Introducing: Sharon Silver as a new contributor to Life360Now! Sharon is the author of Stop Reacting and Start Responding: 108 Ways to Discipline Consciously and Become the Parent You Want to Be, and the founder of Proactive Parenting. Her book and site help parents gain more patience by responding, not reacting as they deal with… Read more »